From 22 to 26 September 2025, the Central International Relations Office (Central IRO) of the University of Zagreb organizes the Welcome Week (Tjedan dobrodošlice) for foreign exchange students coming to UNIZG in the winter semester of the academic year 2025/2026. The majority of the students, of nearly 600 of them, come to study in Zagreb as part of the EU Erasmus+ mobility programme involving countries of the European Union. Under the Programme, the reciprocity is maintained on a per-country basis between the number of incoming foreign students and the number of outgoing domestic students.
Students are arriving from 39 countries, while the largest number of students come from the following EU countries: Spain (106), Germany (86) and France (68). The majority of foreign students, more than 150 of them, will make their exchange at the Faculty of Economics and Business, more than 80 at the Faculty of Law, while 70 students will be hosted by the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing. In the academic year 2025/26 the value of the EU project and the obtained grants, which are used for financing the outgoing mobility of students and (non)teaching staff of the University of Zagreb, amounts to over 6,5 million euros for the EU countries involved in the programme (Key Action 131). Most of the grants, about 3,5 million euros, are allocated to scholarships for UNIZG students going on an exchange to one of the European Union member states. Out of the total number of nearly 310 UNIZG students, most of them travelled for the exchange to the following countries: Spain (58), Italy (38) and Portugal (34).
During the Welcome Week, various activities are planned to be carried out: professional guided tours around the cultural and historical Zagreb centre, academic lectures at the University on the Croatian educational system, the country’s religious tradition, Croatian culture and heritage, as well as culture shock and acculturation. The programme also includes an organ concert at the Church of Saint Mark in Zagreb and a visit to Technical Museum Nikola Tesla.
In addition, the Welcome Day (Dan dobrodošlice), specially prepared for 26 September 2025, will feature a presentation by the employees of the Central IRO about the UNIZG, the study programmes it offers, and options for studying in English language. The artistic production and public events organized by the academies and units of the UNIZG having an artistic component will be presented to the students. The Sports Office of the UNIZG will also address the students. Croaticum (Centre for Croatian as a Second and Foreign Language) will outline its Croatian language courses for foreigners, while Croatian students taking part in the Erasmus Student Network Zagreb (ESN Zagreb), an organization co-financed by the Central IRO through an EU project, will give a presentation on living and studying in Zagreb, as well as inform the foreign students about the activities that they will organize for them throughout the semester.
The programme is fully financed by grants from the Erasmus+ mobility programme.
The detailed schedule is available on the following link:
